Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, dies at 84
www.nbcnews.com
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    155·
    6 days ago

    Whoa. I was too young to vote at the time, but I wouldn’t have voted for him because whenever he talked he sounded like an evangelical preacher.

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
      27·
      6 days ago

      Maybe because he was one? Unless there is some subtle distinction between “evangelic preacher” and “reverant” I’m too atheist for to understand.

      • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
        17·
        6 days ago

        Reverend is just another word for pastor/preacher. He was the leader of his church, whichever word people prefer to use.

        • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
          7·
          6 days ago

          He was a reverend, but was he evangelical? Many Baptists are, at least vaguely, but not all.

          I genuinely don’t know.

          • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
            7·
            6 days ago

            The episcopalians use Reverend for their preacher, and they’re like the polar opposites of evangelicals.